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A U.S. Justice Department investigation has found that police in Ferguson, Missouri, have habitually violated citizens' civil rights, with black residents bearing the brunt, NBC News reported. The probe, prompted by the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson last August, uncovered a pattern of unfair traffic stops, questionable arrests, unreasonable use of force and interference with free speech, according to information provided to NBC News by a Justice Department official. Investigators also found that Ferguson's black citizens, who make up about 67 percent of the city's 21,000 residents, made up 85 percent of traffic stops, and 93 percent of all arrests from 2012 to 2014. Ferguson officials have not responded to requests for comment on the findings.
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President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered "nothing new" in his speech to Congress, suggesting that the Israeli leader failed to articulate an alternative strategy...

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President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered "nothing new" in his speech to Congress, suggesting that the Israeli leader failed to articulate a new strategy to halt Iran's attempts to make a nuclear bomb, NBC News reported. "On the core issue, which is how do we prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon which would make it far more dangerous ... the prime minister didn't offer any viable alternatives," he told reporters during an appearance with new Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. When asked about House Speaker John Boehner's decision to extend the invitation to Netanyahu without the approval of the president, Obama said that the question "should be directed to Mr. Boehner."
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David Petraeus, the former CIA director, will plead guilty to mishandling classified information, the Justice Department said.

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Former CIA Director David Petraeus will plead guilty to mishandling classified information, a Department of Justice spokesperson said Tuesday. The plea agreement outlines the terms in which prosecutors will recommend a sentence of two years of probation, with no jail time, and a $40,000 fine. Petraeus, once America's top official in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, became CIA director in 2011. The question has been whether he gave classified information to a woman who was writing a book about him and who was also his mistress. Petraeus acknowledged the affair when he stepped down in 2012 after leading the CIA for about a year.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued in a fiery speech before Congress Tuesday that a potential nuclear deal being negotiated by the United States and other major powers "paves Iran's path to...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued in a fiery speech before Congress Tuesday that a potential nuclear deal being negotiated by the United States "paves Iran's path to the bomb." Netanyahu said that world powers must work to stop "stop Iran's march of conquest, subjugation and terror." He also said Iran and ISIS were competing for "the crown of militant Islam," in what he called a "deadly game of thrones." Netanyahu earlier nodded to the controversy over his speech, saying he “regretted” that his being before the legislative body has been seen as political. ”I know that no matter what side of the aisle you sit, you stand with Israel," Netanyahu said. At least 40 Democrats had said they would skip the speech. House Speaker John Boehner broke diplomatic protocol by unilaterally extending an invitation for the prime minister to speak without consulting with the White House, a move many Democrats called a GOP-led effort to undermine President Obama’s foreign policy.
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Three men in ski masks shot at police officers in South Los Angeles early Tuesday, the Los Angeles Police department said. At least one of the suspects fired at the cops on West Florence Avenue in Vermont-Slauson at 5:50 a.m, however no one was hit, police said.
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The U.S. State Department said Monday that Hillary Clinton had recently provided the agency with emails from her time as Secretary of State after the New York Times reported that the former First Lady had...

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The U.S. State Department said Monday that Hillary Clinton had recently provided the agency with emails from her time as Secretary of State after the New York Times reported the former first lady had only used a personal email address to conduct government business while at the State Department — a possible violation of federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record. The Times reported that Clinton, widely expected to run for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016, never even used a State Department email address during her four years there. Further, aides did not act to preserve her emails on government servers as required by federal law, the Times reported.
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A new recording purportedly of "Jihadi John" has emerged in which the suspected ISIS executioner recounts how British spies accused him of extremism.

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A new recording purportedly of "Jihadi John" has emerged in which the suspected ISIS executioner recounts how British spies accused him of extremism. In the audio extracts, which could not be verified independently by NBC News, Mohammed Emwazi also described how a British agent asked his thoughts on the 9/11 terror attacks. "He started telling me 'What do you think of 9/11?' and I think I told him 'This is a wrong thing … what happened was wrong," the voice purportedly belonging to Emwazi recounts. The edited recording was released by controversial U.K. rights group, CAGE, which interviewed Emwazi in 2009. CAGE has accused Britain's security services of driving him to extremism — a claim the British government has decried as reprehensible.
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"The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. And we have a closer relationship with Israel right now in terms of security than at any time in history."
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The mother of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old Cleveland boy shot to death by police last year, said Tuesday that despite the mayor's apology for an "insensitive" description of her son in a legal filing, what...

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The mother of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old Cleveland boy shot to death by police last year, said Tuesday that despite the mayor's apology for an "insensitive" description of her son in a legal filing, what she really wanted was condolences for her son's death, NBC News reported. “I have yet not received an apology from police or the city of Cleveland to the killing of my son, and it hurts," Samaria Rice said in a news conference. Tamir's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Cleveland Police Department, and lawyers for the city on Friday responded in court filings that Tamir's injuries were caused by him failing to "exercise due care." Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson apologized on Monday for what he called "very insensitive" language" used in the response.
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Virginia mom of three Brooke Taheri opted to spend her Valentine’s Day working on her taxes, never imagining the holiday could get any less romantic. Then she discovered her identity had been stolen.
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A former son-in-law of screen legends John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands has been arrested in California, accused of kidnapping and raping a 16-year-old New York City teenager, authorities say. Buck Wylde Murphy,

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A former son-in-law of screen legends John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands has been arrested in California, accused of kidnapping and raping a 16-year-old New York City teenager, authorities say. Buck Wylde Murphy, the 49-year-old ex-husband of actress Xan Cassavetes, was arrested in a San Bernardino trailer last week after allegedly forcing the girl to fly across the country, then keeping her captive from Feb. 22 through Feb. 26, according to a criminal complaint and to the private investigator who worked on the case.
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